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  • Can you fish an antenna outside your window, and have a few hundred dollars to spare? You might get better signal with a booster. I use one from surecall on my car and it fills in the gaps in coverage well. Not sure if I get 5g or not, but I get adequate cell service. I think they have ones for the home, ideally with a directional antenna and mast. At that point, you should have great 5g, but your mileage may vary.




  • The phone is trying this on it’s own but you are preferring not to use it, instead preferring 5g networks.

    Honestly you should probably just let the phone do its thing. Various bands have various capabilities. 5g is very fast, goes through concrete but doesn’t travel far (even via air). LTE has more bands in lower frequencies than 5G does IIRC, and lower bands travel greater distances and serve more customers. Phones automatically try to use the 5g signal, falling back on 4g, then 3g, 2g… the reason the feature you enabled exists is when there are stronger 4g signals that are getting picked up and there is still a 5g signal within range. In your case I doubt the 5g signal is in range.

    Btw, your pixel should be using wifi calling at home, which uses the internet and gets as good of a signal as your home wifi does.







  • I am an american but i think it works like this:

    • streets are bike friendly
    • more reasonable to just bike everywhere so everyone does
    • city may provide free bikes to use
    • more demand for bikes, more competition, less expensive bikes
    • less bike theft in general as a result
    • these aren’t $4k+ bespoke bikes
    • something something socialized healthcare something something better labor laws something something higher taxes but a better quality of life. Why steal? Be happy.

    We don’t have these things here. Except for expensive bikes, that’s all we have. That’s why I got these boltcutters…



  • They wouldn’t need a dongle for phone cases, they could easily make room for a headphone jack, but they don’t as a concious decision for a few reasons:

    • “people don’t want or use them” as “the market” has “spoken”. In other words, phone manufacturers removed it, the public didn’t revolt, people bought more wireless headphones and other manufacturers followed suit.
    • less lint in your phone I guess. A few more extra phone features, or capacity or battery life. USB-C truly is the future. Why add a feature that most people won’t use instead of features they will use?

    I mean there are many MANY reasons why we would want to keep the jack:

    • we could actually use the FM receiver that phones are capable of and use the headphone jack as an antenna, as was the case when smart phones started hitting the market.
    • batteries die and the wireless headphones have batteries. Really kinda silly to have two products that can do what you need with one wire but they no longer can because there are no magic pixies to send over the air from one to the other.






  • +1 for nginx, although there has been some concern because nginx is developed by a group of russians though it is open source and appears to still be widely used. If this worries you, look into traefik.

    Otherwise does your ProxMox setup run docker containers? If so you can use NginxProxyManager which has a web gui for configuring your virtual hosts.

    At a high level what you need is this:

    • all domains routed to your host (or home if self hosting) IP.
    • that IP needs to have a reverse proxy server like traefik or nginx listening on port 80 and port 443 if you want ssl/tls.
    • your app servers which run lemmy, nextcloud, etc can be anywhere on your network where your reverse proxy can access. You’ll need to create vhosts for each. The server uses the Host header to determine which IP to reverse proxy to, eithe lemmy.moorefam.net or nextcloud.moorefam.net
    • the reverse proxy will get the content from lemmy or nextcloud and serve it via that IP and port.
    • ensure your home router is port forwarded on 80 (and 443 if you want ssl/tls) if you want to access these instances from the public internet but beware, you might want to add a firewall in-between if you aren’t confident in your router’s firewall.